Will missing out on the World Cup kill US soccer ... or save it?

The US will remain an influential country regardless of how its men perform, but how can the Americans graduate from hosting elites to joining them?

Could the US ultimately emerge from the wreckage of its failed attempt to reach the 2018 World Cup finals as a bigger power?

“Whatever doesn’t kill you makes you stronger,” striker Jozy Altidore wrote on Twitter on Wednesday night.

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from The Guardian http://ift.tt/2yiRAw0